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    • SMAPVEX16 Manitoba PALS Brightness Temperature and Soil Moisture Data V001

    Metadata Updated: August 22, 2025

    This product contains data derived from permanent in situ soil stations and observations by the Passive Active L-band System (PALS) microwave aircraft instrument. The PALS instrument was mounted to a DC-3 aircraft, which flew six parallel flight lines at an altitude of 3000 m in order to map a 26 km x 48 km domain in Manitoba, Canada. Nine permanent soil stations were distributed throughout this same area.

    The soil characteristics included in this data set are volumetric soil moisture, vertically and horizontally polarized brightness temperature, effective soil temperature, effective vegetation temperature, vegetation water content, land cover classification, sand and clay fraction, and volumetric soil moisture uncertainty estimates.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025
    Publisher NASA NSIDC DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1586713519-NSIDC_ECS
    Data First Published 2016-06-08
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/WM5FXV7WPQ6F
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -98.12 49.36 -97.75 49.79
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 594232a91346c4d75443e47a292857af82c5e69678180da5d5bf963a6d589846
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2016-06-08T00:00:00Z/2016-07-22T23:59:59.999Z

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